The crisis rocking various autonomous communities in the state as a result of the 2013 August meeting has taken a new dimension in Amurie Omanze autonomous community in Isu LGA of Imo state following an alleged highhandedness of HRH Eze Nnajiemere in the management and sharing of the Community Government Council’s (CGC) positions.
Speaking with newsmen at Amurie Omanze during this year’s August meeting, some angry women said to have come from Obi ato village in the community stressed that though the community is made up of four villages of Ndiuhu, Obi-ato, Umudiokwara and Ama-ezeregretting that out of the five CGC positions for the community, three were hijacked by prominent people from Ndiuhu village where the traditional ruler comes from whileUmudiokwara and Ama-eze were left to share the remaining two positions to the detriment of Obi-ato village that was not included in the sharing.
The furious women who were represented by Mrs. Chimezie while hinting further revealed that sometime ago, the women of the community gathered and resolved that as soon as the two years tenure of their woman leader, Mrs. Juliana Nwama, who hails from Ndiuhu, the home village ofEze Nnajiemere expires; the next woman leader would come from Obi-ato, the second village in position of seniority which according to her was unanimously signed by the women wing, delivered to their monarch and wondered why the same Eze who is aware of the resolution of the women would support the continued leadership of Mrs. Nwama even when her two years tenure had expired.
She therefore claimed that it is the turn of Obi-ato village to produce the woman leader but regretted that Mrs. Nwama in company of her cohorts hijacked the position alleging that their traditional ruler was in connection with the shocking act.
Speaking also, Ifeyinwa Igboji, Okoro Secunda, Brown Osoawuba Mbah and Stella Igbojirespectively expressed annoyance over the issue and called on the good people of the community and beyond to mediate into the matter to prevent any break down of law and order insisting that since Mrs. Nwama had completed her two years tenure, Obi-ato village should be allowed to produce the next woman leader as agreed.
They further disclosed that their people cannot fold their hands to allow Eze Nnajiemere push them to the wall saying that their happiness was that the whole world is aware that he is only doing so to seriously favour his village which according to them has benefited immensely in the scheme of things.
The women therefore vowed to resist all the gambits of the people of Ndiuhu village to retain the leadership of Mrs. Nwama whom they said had completed her tenure as woman leader adding that the women were on the verge of new of conducting fresh election which they alleged, the traditional ruler tried to stop in a bid to frustrate the emergence of new woman leader.
Adding his voice, the All Progressives Grand Alliance Chairman in Isu LGA and Orlu zone, NzeSamuel Igboji (Samankwe) who is also from Obi-ato village in the community while interacting with newsmen regretted the spate of imposition of unpopular candidate on the women by their traditional ruler advising him to allow the women to harmonize themselves instead of hitting up the polity in the area.
Meanwhile, the traditional ruler of the community, HRH Eze Nnajiemere has described the allegation that three prominent CGC positions were retained in his village (Ndiuhu) against Governor Rochas Okorocha’s directives as a fabrication put together by mischief makers to cause public disunity in the area saying that after two years of their selfless service as women leaders in the state, the Governor directed that all women leaders in all the communities in the state be allowed to serve two more years in appreciation for their good works.